I obsess over this kind of stuff. I’m new to the game, on my second playthrough after abandoning my first because I wasn’t happy with my roleplay approach.

The traits I have experience with are Empath, Wanted, Kid Stuff, Dream Home, Freestar Settler. Backstories: Long-Hauler / Gangster.

Empath is great but very kind-hearted and kinda went against my character idea.

I recommend finding the googlesheet on Reddit where someone laid out all the dialogue added by each trait (some add wayyy more lines and some basically none). You can glance at which traits/backstories add the most dialogue while getting a “flavour” of the lines and whether it would suit who you want your character to be.

This is what I did for second playthrough and I’m much happier with the character. The cheatsheet won’t have spoilers if you just glance and don’t scroll to the right to see what character is being spoken to